dan lothian is live from washington. we're going to begin in south korea live with jim clancy who is there. good morning, jim. >> reporter: good morning to you. you know, we started off the day and we got the word very early and then this afternoon. north koreans saw it all playing out before their eyes as the television announcer came on their national television. take a look. >> translator: we are maintaining the weapon readiness posture, especially after today's movement of the anti-airborne operation. i believe we are fully prepared to control the critical situation. >> all right. now, that was a spokesman for south korea's defense ministry responding there to the announcement that they had detected the movement of medium-range missiles over to the east coast of the korean peninsula, presumably for a test. it could be a military drill, but both the u.s. and south korea do expect that the north will test fire a missile as a way to in a propaganda war that's under way right now, to try to fire a shot back at the u.s. a